Mises Daily
Author:
Robert Higgs
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[ The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865–1914 ] This book, my first, was composed for the most part in 1969 and 1970 and published in 1971, exactly forty years ago. At that time, I was in my mid-twenties and had just completed my work for the PhD degree in economics at the Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, I had been trained